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About 1,600 persons with disabilities helped by Community Chest in 2009 were able to gain skills and employment opportunities.
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Disability Services
Social Goals
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Children have opportunities to maximise their potential regardless of abilities. |
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Adults with disabilities have opportunites to lead independent lives. |
Priority Outcomes
Children with Disabilities
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Children with disabilities have access to early intervention and integration support. |
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Children with disabilities achieve their potential. |
Adults with Disabilities
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Adults with disabilities are gainfully employed. |
Strategies
Children with Disabilities
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Provide early intervention to facilitate and enhance integration. |
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Provide integration support for children with disabilities to pursue mainstream education. |
Adults with Disabilities
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Programmes funded/administered by NCSS
a. Information and Referral Services
b. Early Intervention Programmes for Infants and Children
e. Vocational Assessment and Job Placement
f. Day Activity Centres/Independent Living Training Centres
i. Emergency Short Messaging Service (SMS 70999) Helpline Service
a. Information and Referral Services
Information and referral services provide information on disability and the services available in the community. They also refer people with disabilities and their families to the Centre for Enabled Living Ltd.
b. Early Intervention Programmes for Infants and Children
Early intervention programmes generally offer a range of services to children below the age of six diagnosed with disabilities or developmental delays and their families. They focus on developing a child's skills in areas of language and communication, social interaction and behaviour, perception and cognition, gross and fine motor, and self-help skills. Parent support and training are also provided.
Service providers of Early Intervention Programmes who wish to register as an approved institution, may contact the Centre for Enabled Living Ltd.
c. Special Schools
Special schools offer a range of specialised programmes to meet the education and intervention needs of children with autism, intellectual, sensory and multiple disabilities. Some special schools teach the mainstream school curriculum while others emphasise areas such as self-help skills, functional academic skills, pre-vocational skills and daily living skills. In addition to education, special schools also provide therapy, parent support and training services.
d. Vocational Training
Vocational training programmes offer training in vocational skills to people with disabilities to prepare them for employment.
e. Vocational Assessment and Job Placement
Vocational assessment services assess the vocational needs and the readiness for open employment of people with disabilities. For those ready for employment, job matching and follow-up services are provided.
f. Day Activity Centres/Independent Living Training Centres
The Centres provide a day programme for people with disabilities with moderate to low functioning ability to enhance their independence through equipping them with daily and community living skills. Day Activity Centres also provide care relief for caregivers to pursue economic activity or as a form of respite.
g. Sheltered Employment
Sheltered employment provides a simulated work environment and pre-vocational skills training programmes to equip people with disabilities who have the potential and capability for open employment.
h. Homes/Hostels
Homes and hostels provide accommodation and training to people with disabilities with no alternative accommodation or require specific training for independent living. They aim to help people with disabilities live independently by providing training in activities of daily and community living skills.
i. Emergency Short Messaging Service (SMS 70999) Helpline Service
The Emergency Short Messaging Service (SMS) Helpline, or SMS 70999 for short, is a joint initiative between NCSS and the Singapore Police Force to offer people with hearing and/or speech impairment an avenue of communication between them and the Police in times of emergencies.
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